[RFC PATCH 0/3] mac80211: nullfunc connection monitor

[Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>]

I have been thinking about using nullfunc frames in connection monitor
with hw which have IEEE80211_HW_REPORTS_TX_ACK_STATUS. Here are my
current patches based on the idea. They have received minimal testing
and there's still some work to do.

But I would like to get comments what people think about this. Might
this create some kind of IOP problems, for example?

I also added a new hw flag to be able to offload connection monitoring
to the hardware.

TODO:

o send qos nullfunc when using wmm

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Kalle Valo (3):
      mac80211: refactor nullfunc status handling to a separate function
      mac80211: use nullfunc in connection monitor
      mac80211: add support connection monitor in hardware


 include/net/mac80211.h     |    1 +
 net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h |    1 +
 net/mac80211/mlme.c        |   40 +++++++++++++++++----
 net/mac80211/status.c      |   84 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 4 files changed, 106 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)